Grants

Lynn & Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award

The Lynn and Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award honors an STFM member or nonmember for outstanding leadership in advancing family medicine as a discipline. The nominee's achievements and activities should be clearly recognized as enhancing or supporting family medicine education by improving resources available for its support, by defense or support of its objectives, or by other notable service to the discipline. Such achievements should have had significance at a national level.

The STFM Communications Committee will screen the nominations, and the STFM Board of Directors will make the final selections.

The Communications Committee will rank nominees according to their achievements and activities that have:

supported STFM aims and principles,

advanced family medicine as a discipline, and

had national impact on family medicine education.

To nominate an individual for the Lynn & Joan Carmichael STFM Recognition Award, complete nomination form and compile nomination requirements above and send electronically to tnolte@stfm.org by October 15, 2019.

A nominator is an STFM member

the nominee can be a STFM member or non-member

Prepare the following:

A statement from the nominator citing the nominee's accomplishments and activities that warrant consideration for the STFM award

Up to three additional letters of support from both the nominee's home institution (or agency) and from a regional or nationally placed reference, addressing the nominee's national or regional contribution to family medicine

Curriculum vitae of the nominee

Recipients for this award will be honored during STFM's Annual Spring Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2-6, 2020. The award winner will receive travel support up to $2,000, a commemorative award, and a complimentary registration to the STFM Annual Spring Conference.

Questions?

If you have questions about this award, email Traci Brazelton or call 913-906-6226.